Memories of Tang Zhi is a memoir written by Zhou Zuoren in his later years, mainly to recall and summarize his life track. But he basically avoided all kinds of disgraceful behaviors such as defection to the enemy and false appointment during the Japanese occupation of Peiping, and called this avoidance? No excuses? .

Not only in Memoirs of Tang Zhi, but also in Zhou Zuoren's later poems, it is difficult for us to see the slightest remorse and soul torture. Not only did he not repent, but he also tried his best to defend his actions. 1July 964 18, he wrote to Bao:? Regarding supervision, it is neither mandatory nor automatic. Those who really took the trouble to exercise themselves later, of course, were put forward by the Japanese side on their own initiative, and they agreed only after consideration, because they thought they were more reliable, could be more educated than others and had less reactionary behavior. ?

In Zhou Zuoren's eyes, being the education inspector of the puppet government in North China is a righteous act, for the sake of education and the people. As early as 1945, he said in his complaint? Encouraged by Tang, he became a professor of pseudo-Peking University and dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He thought that schools could fake students but not education. Although the government was fake, education could not be fake. The motivation for joining pseudo-organizations was entirely to maintain education and resist slavery.

The rise and fall of the nation and the decline of the country did not arouse Zhou Zuoren's ambition, but became the defender of the Japanese invaders, making him always be stared at the shame column of national sinners. It is too simplistic to criticize Zhou Zuoren only from the perspective of ethics.

Zhou Zuoren represents an intellectual's mental journey from tradition to modernity. He has his own unique thinking and is not ashamed of surrendering in front of life. Traitor? Integrity? It doesn't matter, what matters is the cultural choice of super-class, super-politics and super-country. Cultural factors are a key to our understanding of Zhou Zuoren, as Shu Wu said. Without understanding Zhou Zuoren, it is impossible to understand what is the real China culture and what is the fate and path of China intellectuals. ?

Zhou Zuoren is one of the most famous scholars and writers in modern China. During the May 4th Movement, he spoke loudly about ideological revolution and advocated humanitarianism. He successively published powerful comments such as People's Literature, Popular Literature and Ideological Revolution, and together with Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, he rushed to the feudal ethics of cannibalism. The image of an ideological soldier is unforgettable for a long time.

However, in that era of violent autocracy, terrorist killings, freedom and democracy, and the interweaving of tradition and modernity, intellectuals at that time were faced with a painful self-evolution, the internalization of cultural traditions and the coercion of the real world, and different people chose different paths.

Unlike Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren did not challenge the world as a soldier. He returned to traditional culture. Know life's philosophy of life is optimistic and timely. The age of blood, a? Hermit? It was born.